User name " former member"

[Juan]

What does the user name "former member" mean? Are they gone ant the original user name deleted?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I means the user deleted their account.

 

[telstar_1]

Could go with something like this

 

[navychop]

"Deleted" being interpreted in more ways than one.

 

[meStevo]

You can just look at posts that quoted them to see their name - John2021

"Deleted" being interpreted in more ways than one.

Yeah, can't really delete an account, only sanitize it, so looks like it just purges some elements of the profile and restricts it to to satisfy EU's GDPR.